出版社：Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines
摘要：This paper investigates the effect of the threat and occurrence of patent litigation on the private value of patent protection. Potential challenges are introduced into a renewal model as a factor in patentee decisions as to whether a patent is worth maintaining. The model yields testable predictions about renewal probabilities. Data for post WWII German patents support the hypothesis that the need to defend patent rights influences patentee behaviour. The paper concludes with a discussion of how this factor may be incorporated in patent value estimations and what the results imply for the interpretation of patent data
关键词：Patents; patent litigation; patent value estimations; litigation; patentee ;behaviour. ;. ;by Jean Olson Lanjouw. All rights reserved. Short sections of text not to exceed ;two paragraphs may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit; ;including . notice; is given to the source.
